NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK – March 31st, 2026
Today we're introducing Build.inc ("Build"), an AI native operating partner for commercial real estate that helps built world professionals accelerate their most important projects from concept to completion.
Buildings are the heart of any society. We shape our buildings and they shape us. The built world drives the economy and the culture of our time, but it also provides us with the stage for life; shelter for our most important moments.
Yet, while every aspect of society has sped up, the way we build hasn't changed in decades. Every process along the way is manually driven, rife with fragmentation and frustrating. Productivity in the built world increasingly trails far behind every other sector as labor pools shrink and built world professionals become more expensive.
The world around us is our biggest opportunity yet for 99% of projects, it continues to break in all kinds of ways.
We believe there's a better way, where the art of building can move at the speed of technology.
That's why we're excited to announce Build. Build is defining the category of agentic CRE by inventing a new way for AI and humans to collaborate, combining the speed and intelligence of agentic AI with the rigor of domain experts who bring decades of experience. This allows us to deliver complex workflows across the development cycle in a small fraction of the time it previously took. Better, faster and with stronger economics than ever before.
Since starting Build at the end of 2024, we've delivered millions of dollars worth of value for the largest institutions, including Blackstone, the UK government, Tishman Speyer and asset-specific developers like STACK Infrastructure in the data center vertical. Our customers have committed hundreds of millions of dollars in capital deployment based on Build's ability to support their most important projects. Speed to verified output is our north star, and today our median delivery time is one tenth of the industry average. Development and acquisitions teams call Build a secret weapon to progress deals faster and with more confidence.
With Build increasingly delivering workflows across the cycle in asset management, CRE legal and pre-construction.. we're just getting started.
Build is a small, talent-dense team, combining built world expertise from Starwood (alt. assets investing), Tishman Speyer (development), and Heatherwick Studio (architecture) with AI native talent from Y Combinator, Harvard, Imperial, Cambridge and MIT. We work in-person across three hubs in New York City, San Francisco and London with a remote function for our amazing delivery team.
To scale our team and our support to partners, we're excited to share that we've raised $8.5m from Index Ventures, Pebblebed (founders of OpenAI and Meta AI research) and angels from the C-suite of OpenAI, Blackstone to the co-founder of Google Maps and F1 champion, Nico Rosberg.
For fast-growing developers who see themselves as early adopters, sign up for Early Access.
For engineers, domain experts, or people passionate about building a category defining company in the built world, we're hiring.
Let's Build.
- James SE
Co-founder & CEO